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When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public . . .When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public . . .
DaveaEggers is the author of ten books, including most recentlyaYour Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The CircleaandaA Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award.aHe is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based inaSan Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine,aThe Believer. McSweeney's also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world.aEggers is the co-founder of 826 National,aa network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organizationadesigned to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible. He lives in Northern California with his family. www.mcsweeneys.net www.voiceofwitness.org www.826national.org www.scholarmatch.org www.valentinoachakdeng.org